--- title: A seat belt locks if the car suddenly slows or the belt is pulled fa… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics description: A seat belt locks if the car suddenly slows or the belt is pulled fast, and it is worn on every trip in every seat, across the chest and hips, not the neck or tummy. Who acts: seat belt, car. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seat belt, car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:018-car-safety.lesson:8 # text = A seat belt locks if the car suddenly slows or the belt is pulled fast, and it is worn on every trip in every seat, across the chest and hips, not the neck or tummy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 018-car-safety.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 3 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 locks lock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 15 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 across across ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 hips hip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:appos 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lock** | present | a seat belt | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **slow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the car | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **pull** | present · passive | | the belt | | | | fast *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **wear** | present · passive | | car | | every trip in every seat | | across the chest and hips and the neck or tummy | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:018-car-safety.lesson:8`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/7/) - next →: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/)